The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in 'news factories' by news …
Introduction: the newsroom -- Copy boys and girls and photographers -- Rewrite staff and copy editors -- Reporters and their junior peers: routines, careers, and status in the newsroom -- Reporters and their senior peers: the myths and realities of upward mobility -- Reporters a…
MORE): A Journalism Review' was co-founded by J. Anthony Lukas, a star at the New York Times who felt that the rigors of daily journalism were stifling him and other journalists like him, and Richard Pollak, a former Newsweek media writer. From 1971 to 1976, they produced a mont…
Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional change in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism's e…